Oh by the way, I have read both sets of rules and find them both to be
interesting and potentially (remember I haven't found anyone to shoot at
yet, besides myself) tactically challenging in their own rights. Besides, if
you don't like something, that's what house rules are for.
Liquid
-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
To: space-marine_at_... <space-marine@...>
Date: Monday, February 23, 1998 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Epic] RGMW Newsgroup.
>At 01:00 PM 23/2/98 PST, you wrote:
>>
>>> I honestly believe Epic40k is an attempt to return to the more free
>>form
>>>structure of 1st ed. Then again, I play Epic2nd !
>>>
>>I was actually thinking that e40k was disliked because it required
>>thought, which is evidently missing on the newsgroup.
>>Steve
>
>
>Sorry Steve, but nothing could be further from the truth.
>
>E40K has dropped all of the special rules that only a general with a brain
>like a battle computer could keep track of in favour of a flavouless
>porridge of homogenous gruel... (It is very like first edition where
>everyone had the same units because you had a coice of Marines or Traiter
>Marines. The only differences were in the unit colours...)
>
>
>Objectives have been rendered irrelevant in favour of a shootfest (sounds
>not unreasonable in a war game, but it's not exactly conducive to
>"tactics"...) It would be fair to paraphrase Patton with "victory goes to
>the side with the biggest (in this case "baddest") battalions". Army
choice
>is about it as far as "tactics" go.
>
>
>E40K is disliked because of the marketing strategies and because it has
>removed flavour from the game. It is liked because it is "simple" "quick"
>and "easy". Some people have suggested that it more accurately simulates
>real warfare (and Patton seems to agree) but is this a good thing in a
>wargame set in thye year 40,000?
>
>
>If you want a real challenge, try playing a dozen games of SM/TL using the
>random army generation charts posted a few weeks ago. Winning a game with
>what are usually considered "useless" units IS a tactical challenge I
assure
>you...
>
>
>Agro
>
>
Received on Tue Feb 24 1998 - 14:31:11 UTC